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"I die flawlessly innocent of the so-called crimes of which I am accused. I pardon those who find themselves the cause of my misfortunes." - Louis XVI A lot of ink has been spilled within the lives of history's most important numbers, but how a lot of the forest is lost for the trees and shrubs? In Charles River Editors' French series, listeners can get caught up to accelerate on the lives of France's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long ignored or never known. Louis XVI is one of the very most famous kings of France, but for reasons he'd have much alternatively avoided. Coming of age in the wake of the reign of the Sun Ruler, Louis XIV, and his father, Louis XV, Louis XVI primarily designed to be one of France's most enlightened kings. Instead, he was destined to be the only French king ever performed. Indeed, it is his fatality and his role in fomenting the French Trend (along with his infamous queen, Marie Antoinette) that continue steadily to play the central role in Louis XVI's legacy. The abrupt demise of Louis XVI and his reign capped a tumultuous but important historical period for both France and all of those other world. It had been Louis XVI's desire to reform France in the mold of the Enlightenment and his failure to drive those reforms against a reluctant aristocracy that emboldened and spurred those who rebel against him. At the same time, his support for the American cause through the American Trend in the 1770s was important in securing that nation's flexibility and further increasing France's financial woes.
